Language: Reference & General

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonol...

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of new nature writin...

Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and Facilitation provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling practices that focuse...

Bringing together interviews with some of the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children today, DiVERSE develops an...

Bringing together interviews with some of the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children today, DiVERSE develops an...

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, sur...

Fonologia do Português e Interfaces: Fenômenos da Aquisição e da Variação brings together a collection of studies on phonological acquisition and p...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence on the lexicon of Modern Ch...

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a ra...

As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables and polysyllables in Middle C...

As the sixth volume of a multivolume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture on Middle Chinese lexicon and ...

This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed in images designed for knowled...

Know your Arbroath smokies from your wynds, your trews from your sporran, and . . . lang may yer lum reek! Some say that Scots use more Scottish sl...

Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse...

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognis...

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing...

For courses in Writing. Applying the fundamentals of good writing to a modern world The Writers Brief Handbook, 6th Edition continues the long cel...

This volume presents an introspective study of writing pedagogy, explored through the lens of theatre and performance. The chapters explore assessm...

For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together i...

Why Study Linguistics is designed to help anyone with an interest in studying language understand what linguistics is, and what linguists do. Explo...

From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection o...

This invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a successful career. Actual examples drawn from all arenas of s...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...